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Singing Pass Trail Access - A call to Action

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Access to the Singing Pass Trail in Garibaldi Park near Whistler was blocked by a landslide about 25 years ago. Hikers had used the access route - which is an old mining/logging road for many years to drive to the trailhead five km up Fitzimmons Creek from Whistler Village. The landslide blocked the road about two km from Whistler and then Whistler Blackcomb built a bike park and closed the road for vehicles. This increases the total round trip to 26 km to Singing Pass or 32 km to Russet Lake.

The Singing Pass area is an alpine paradise in Garibaldi Provincial Park just east of Whistler. It joins the “Musical Bumps” (Oboe, Flute, Piccolo and Whistler) to the Fitzsimmons and Spearhead area. The Singing Pass trail starts in large mature timber and follows Fitzsimmons Creek to the alpine pass where it splits to trails to Russet Lake and the Musical Bumps. Russet Lake is the location of a BC Parks hut built in 1968 by the BC Mountaineering Club and will soon be the site of a larger hut presently being built by the Alpine Club of Canada and the BCMC.

The FMCBC has been working with government agencies for many years trying to get the road fixed. About 10 years ago Innergex Renewable Energy built a small dam on Fitzsimmons Creek close to the old trailhead. They fixed an old logging road on the north (Blackcomb) side of the creek to provide access to the IPP. We recommended that this road be used for access to the trail and BC Parks agreed with that idea.

However 10 years later the government has taken very little action. They have tried to fix up the old road to make it easier to hike but that doesn’t do anything for the extra distance.

Call to Action

At recent meetings with BC Parks and other stakeholders the FMCBC has had very little support for our request to get the new road opened for private vehicles.

We would really appreciate a letter asking for the IPP Access Road to be open to private vehicles and that a bridge be built over Fitzsimmons Creek.

Please send an email or letter to the following government representatives:

  • This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
  • This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development

Comments   

+1 # Rupert Merer 2017-11-02 08:43
Whistler is the most important mountain resort in BC and Garibaldi Park is the most important Park in the lower Mainland. It is astonishing and unacceptable that access from Whistler to Garibaldi Park is severely curtailed.

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